#5 Sanovi Technologies : Providing the Necessary Freedom to Innovate

Indian founded and globally recognized Sanovi Technologies is an independent software vendor offering a suite of software products and solutions in the IT Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) Space.

On observing that maintaining a DR solution to keep pace with the dynamic and ever changing nature of IT was not yet possible, Chandra Sekhar Pulamarasetti along with Lakshman Narayanaswamy and Raja Vonna started Sanovi. In a disaster scenario, Sanovi's flagship DRM product enables its clients to ensure that their IT applications will recover predictably with regard to meeting the required recovery goals.

To safeguard any organizations DR landscape, the DRM provides high levels of interoperability, real time monitoring of adherence to DR SLAs, workflow automation and advanced reporting features. Since 2011 Sanovi has been made the sample vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery Management. It was also recently announced the winner of the Red Herring Asia 100 awards. With more than 100 large enterprises including fortune 500 clients at present, Sanovi has its corporate headquarters in Bangalore with sales and services offices across India, Dubai and South Korea.

#6 Aryaka Networks: Thinking beyond the box

Achieving the elusive "work-life balance" is an ongoing challenge for many professionals. Even as things advance, balancing family and professional life is no easy feat. As it turns out, many of the big organizations are aware of this issue. Aryaka Networks is one such company which defines work-life balance differently. Since their inception in 2008, Aryaka has been the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimization company solving application and network performance issues faced by the distributed enterprise.

Aryaka eliminates the need for expensive and complex appliances as well as long-haul connectivity, and enhances collaboration across locations. With offices in the U.S. and India, Aryaka provides an office atmosphere which is like a small workplace where employees enjoy working and interacting.